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ROME Italy's coast guard said about 1,800 migrants were rescued from seven overcrowded vessels on Saturday, while five corpses were found on a large rubber boat carrying 212 others. The dead bodies were found on board at the time of the rescue, a coast guard spokeswoman said on Sunday. The cause of death was not yet known, she said #India#France#Africa#Italy#Argentina#United Kingdom#Entertainment

RAMALLAH, West Bank A Palestinian youth died on Saturday at a West Bank hospital following a clash with Israeli troops near Ramallah, Palestinian hospital officials said. The confrontation was one of three in a matter of hours in which Palestinians died from Israeli-Palestinian violence on one of the most tense days in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip in recent months. #France#Israel#California#United Kingdom#Entertainment#opinion

Air safety investigators, one of them a Boeing investigator, have identified the component as a "flaperon" from the trailing edge of a Boeing 777 wing, a U.S. official said. Flight 370, which disappeared March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board, is the only 777 known to be missing. #Boeing#France#ImagesOfTheDay#FLight 370#777#La Reunion

SAINT-DENIS, Reunion Malaysia is "almost certain" plane debris washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion is part of a Boeing 777, its deputy transport minister said, heightening the possibility it could be wreckage from missing Flight MH370. The object, which appears to be part of a wing, was being sent to a French military laboratory near Toulouse to verify if it is indeed the first trace of the lost plane to be found, police sources said. #United States#France#Europe#markets#Africa#Mexico

PARIS/SYDNEY France's air crash investigation agency is studying a piece of plane debris found on Reunion Island off the east coast of Africa but it was too early to say if it came from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, a spokesman said on Wednesday. A source familiar with the matter said the debris was most likely from a Boeing 777 ( BA.N ), but that it was not yet established if it was from MH370. A U.S #Business#United States#France#Australia#opinion